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China Broadens Travel Curbs To Encompass Family of Top AI Talent
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28 Sep 2026
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Business Standard: China has expanded overseas travel restrictions for top AI professionals in private firms to include the families of key
AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs For $8.2 Billion
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28 Sep 2026
AMD has agreed to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for about $8.2 billion in stock, making it the chipmaker's second-largest acquisition and giving it a major foothold in "world models" that simulate
TikTok to Pay Alabama $100 Million, Limit Teen Use In First State Settlement
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28 Sep 2026
TikTok has agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and adopt new restrictions for teenage users, including a two-hour daily limit, overnight access restrictions, stronger age verification, a ban
Data Center Developer Offers $10,000 Checks To Nearby Households
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28 Sep 2026
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: NorthPoint Development wants to build a data center on 1,300 acres in the Pocono foothills, near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. As well as
Meta Taps MongoDB CEO Desai to Drive Enterprise AI Push
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28 Sep 2026
Meta has hired MongoDB CEO Chirantan "CJ" Desai to lead a new enterprise AI business aimed at turning Meta's models, agents and tools into products companies can deploy themselves. Reuters reports:
Nvidia Unveils AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog
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28 Sep 2026
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Nvidia on Monday announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, which combines open source software and a reference system design to keep AI agents within set
Amazon Evaluating Drone Deliveries In Australia, Asia
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28 Sep 2026
Amazon is preparing to expand Prime Air drone deliveries into Australia and potentially other Asia-Pacific markets, with a new regulatory role tasked with securing the approvals needed to launch
Bill Gates Says an AI 'Kill Switch' Isn't Enough
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28 Sep 2026
Bill Gates said an AI "kill switch" alone would be insufficient to address the technology's risks. "The kill switch is, that's kind of a weird thing. It's not enough to have a kill switch," the
SpaceX Launches Starship Into Orbit
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28 Sep 2026
SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time, successfully deploying 26 operational Starlink V3 satellites after overcoming an early Raptor 3 engine shutdown during ascent. "SpaceX plans to
Walmart Says It's Not Using Personal Info To Set Prices As It Expands Digital Shelf Labels
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28 Sep 2026
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Walmart is aiming to assuage customers' fears about its new pricing technology as it rolls out digital price labels at its stores. In a
Are AI Chatbots Spreading Misinformation to US Voters?
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28 Sep 2026
Are AI chatbots quietly shaping the perceptions of U.S. voters? Voters trying to educate themselves about candidates "are unknowingly being served partisan talking points in the guise of neutral news
Apple Faces $5.7 Billion Patent Infringement Verdict Over iPhone And Apple Watch Haptics
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28 Sep 2026
"A federal jury in San Diego awarded Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion in damages Friday after finding that Apple infringed claims from two haptics patents," reports CNBC: Taction sued Apple
Just How Big is the AI Buildout - and How Risky?
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27 Sep 2026
A new Brookings Institution study notes the "strikingly physical" economic footprint of AI's buildout, from specialized chips and electricity to purpose-built data centers. (Two-thirds of a data
Waymo Says Its Self-Driving Cars Reduced Injury-Causing Accidents by 82%
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27 Sep 2026
Waymo's self-driving car technology "continues to outperform human benchmarks," the company claimed this week. "It was involved in 841 fewer injury-causing crashes — an 82% reduction compared to
After Dozens of Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenAI Pauses Model Training to Build More Safeguards
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27 Sep 2026
"OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest AI models," reports the Associated Press, "as reports of AI agents going rogue mount." The decision to halt development came just hours after the
New Tin-based Solar Cells Trap Heat 1,000 Times Longer, Could Beat 33% Limit
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27 Sep 2026
Could this push solar cell efficiency beyond the theoretical 33% limit? Interesting Engineering reports: Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands found that tin-based perovskite
China and the US Say They've Agreed to Start Talks About AI
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27 Sep 2026
The United States and China have agreed to "launch a dialogue" on AI, reports Reuters. On artificial intelligence, the two sides agreed to hold a dialogue on the technology's risks and benefits, with
KDE and GNOME Developers Ponder How to Handle AI-Generated Contributions
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27 Sep 2026
Last weekend KDE's annual Akademy conference included a presentation proposing an AI-native KDE," writes The Register. This led KDE developer Nate Graham to open a discussion about proposed
After 40 Years, Microsoft Excel Will Add Single-Cell Lists and Arrays
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26 Sep 2026
Microsoft's senior product manager for Excel acknowledges that "Throughout Excel's 40-year history, you've only been able to put one value per cell." But that's now changing with arrays in cells (as
AI Finds So Many Linux Bugs, Canonical Changes to a Two-Week Stable Release Update Cycle
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26 Sep 2026
"Finding vulnerabilities faster also puts pressure on Linux distributions to fix and deliver patches faster," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli AI has transformed bug discovery from "a manual,
Is Microsoft Quietly Killing Off Its 'Copilot+ PC' Brand?
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26 Sep 2026
"Copilot+ PCs" were Microsoft's official branding for Windows 11 "AI PCs" that met their system requirements. But the 2024 launch "didn't go smoothly," writes Windows Central, after security
Rogue OpenAI Agents Posted 53 User-Uploaded Images Onto the Internet, Accessed US Government Websites
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26 Sep 2026
53 images that users uploaded into OpenAI models were included in training data — and then AI agents in an OpenAI research environment posted those 53 images on public image hosting sites. While
Meta Made 43M Misleading Statements, New Mexico Jury Finds, Including on Its Cambridge Analytica Response
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26 Sep 2026
A New Mexico jury on Friday "found Facebook liable for deceiving users" about its privacy protections, reports the Associated Press. A New Mexico newspaper calls it "another massive legal victory"
There's a New Way to Break RSA Encryption
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25 Sep 2026
"Signature forgery." It's a new way to break RSA keys — and it doesn't require factoring. Ars Technica reports on new research using classical computing to "reduce the current RSA security level to
Asteroids Named After Tom Lehrer and 'Weird Al' Yankovic
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25 Sep 2026
"Weird Al" Yankovic's name has just been approved for a new asteroid — (14331) Alyankovic = 1981 EC26 — by the International Astronomical Union, reports Space.com. Yankovic's asteroid was
Raspberry Pi Stock Jumps 30% as Demand Surges. (And Boards Now Locked to Their Original RAM Size)
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25 Sep 2026
Raspberry Pi's stock shot up over 30% in the last week. Why are investors so excited? For the six months ending June 30, revenue for Raspberry Pi Holdings "jumped 90% to $256.9 million," reports
F-Droid 2.0: FOSS Android Appstore Continues Updating Despite Google's Pending 'Developer Verification' Plan
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25 Sep 2026
"F-Droid, a third-party app repository that only distributes free and open-source software packages for Google's Android mobile platform, on Thursday announced version 2.0 of its Android app,"
How Believable is Google's New 'Live Avatar' Capability?
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25 Sep 2026
Google has synthesized "expressive face-to-face experiences" for its speech agent Gemini 3.8 Live. They're now offering a Live Avatar "with precise lip-syncing, natural expressions, and fluid
People Training OpenAI's AI Fired For Using AI To Train the AI
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24 Sep 2026
404 Media reports "multiple contractors hired to improve OpenAI's models have been fired for using AI to train the AI: That's not great for the models themselves, but there is also obviously a great
Five Police Officers Criminally Charged for Misusing Flock Cameras in Indianapolis
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24 Sep 2026
"Nationwide, at least 100 police department employees have been charged with or accused of misusing license-plate readers for unauthorized purposes," reports the Washington Post. They cite their past
OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Urge UN Countries to Cooperate on AI Safety Standards
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24 Sep 2026
"The heads of major AI firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon X2 Series Processors Will Support Linux
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24 Sep 2026
Snapdragon X2 Series processors feature a neural processing unit (NPU) delivering 80 trillion operations per second and allowing advanced AI features to run locally. And Snapdragon X2 Series "is
Rogue OpenAI Agent Tried to Breach Government Site in May When Prompted for Simple Data-Retrieving Tasks
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24 Sep 2026
OpenAI's artificial intelligence "went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents," the New York Times reported Wednesday, "hacking and trying to break into government and university
Cities Across US Oppose Trump FCC Plan to Preempt Local Broadband Rules
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24 Sep 2026
Ars Technica reports: Cities and counties around the U.S. are angry at the Trump administration over a proposal to override local rules that govern the deployment of wired broadband networks... The
Whatever Happened to the 150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Stored Under the Atlantic Ocean?
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23 Sep 2026
More than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste were stored on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean between 1949 and 1982, reports ScienceAlert. Whatever happened to those barrels? Scientists
Andreessen Horowitz Launches AI/Company-Building School As a College Alternative
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23 Sep 2026
TechCrunch quipped it was like if startup school Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's build-a-company-instead of-college Fellowship Program had a baby. Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen
Bitcoin Surges to $86,455, an 8-Month High, After America's SEC Announces Tokenized Stock Experiment
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23 Sep 2026
August 15: $62,991 September 23: $86,456 Bitcoin shot up 37% over the last 39 days, reaching an eight-month high on Monday. "Bitcoin is back," declares Yahoo Finance: The token held near $86,000 on
Microsoft Helps Take Down Massive Automated, AI-Powered Phishing-as-a-Service Platform
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23 Sep 2026
Microsoft's security blog describes the fight against a new "AI-powered cybercrime platform" offering phishing-as-a-service, with AI-tailored lures and analyses of compromised inboxes (to identify
Trump Denounces Attempts to Control AI, Wants It Renamed 'Super Intelligence' in US Documents
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23 Sep 2026
U.S. President Trump addressed the United Nations on Tuesday. And a half hour in, after decrying immigration, Trump pivoted to add that "The United States also totally rejects any attempt to
Are Students Suddenly Losing Interest in Computer Science as AI Coding Takes Off?
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22 Sep 2026
On academic mentoring platform Nova Learning, Computer Science and AI, "once the dominant choice among students... is losing ground fast, while Engineering has nearly doubled its share." It's a small
'Coyote vs. Acme' Outgrosses All But 3 WB Movies This Year, Heads To Profit
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22 Sep 2026
The movie Coyote vs. Acme earned more than Warner Bros.' $30 million tax write-off in just two weeks. And last week the movie officially earned more than its production budget of $70 million. But
Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Contributed to US Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children
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22 Sep 2026
Two U.S. missiles hit an elementary school in Iran, killing over 150 people including 123 children on the first day of the Iran War. But Gizmodo notes that a new Bloomberg investigation cites U.S.
Google Opens Preorders for Its $899 Gemini-Enhanced 'Googlebook' Laptops
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22 Sep 2026
Monday Google opened preorders for its "Googlebook" laptops, pricing them at $899. A Google's blog post added that "At launch, you can choose between Intel Core Ultra Series 3 and Snapdragon X Elite
Meta's New 'Personal AI Agent' Muse Beats ChatGPT in Downloads - and Get Blocked by Amazon
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22 Sep 2026
Meta's AI "personal agent" Muse overtook ChatGPT as the #1 iOS free app in the U.S. on Friday, reports CNBC — and it's still showing more downloads as of Monday night. Muse now has over 2.5 million
Paramount Skydance 'Emerges Victorious', Finally Wins Settlement for Warner Bros Takeover
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21 Sep 2026
Paramount Skydance just "emerged victorious" reports Reuters, "from a legal battle over its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery" that will "dramatically concentrate power across
As KDE Turns 30, Contributors and Commits are Going Strong
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21 Sep 2026
"In a few weeks, KDE will turn 30 years old," writes core contributor Kevin Ottens, celebrating with some special KDE community data analytics (including a 30-year graph of the number of
Are Book Publishers Warming Up to the AI Industry?
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21 Sep 2026
There's at least 15 author-driven lawsuits underway against AI companies, while publishers have filed roughly 10 more coordinated suits of their own, notes Publisher's Weekly. Yet "While the lawsuits
Australia Considers Smart Glasses Ban in Government Workplaces, While 70 People Sue Meta Over Unknowing Data Collection
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21 Sep 2026
"Australia is considering barring the use of camera-equipped smart glasses in government workplaces..." reports Reuters, "in what it said could be the first ban of its kind." But meanwhile "more than
North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide
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21 Sep 2026
"I would like to verify your technical abilities, so please download the specified file and complete the assigned task..." Fake job listings aimed at software developers and IT professionals led to
Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown
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21 Sep 2026
Tom's Hardware reports: Four plaintiffs subscribed to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the developers of these AI models violated antitrust laws